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Yet, as there were no cousins of the male branch extant, the lack of an heir was a serious omission, and to become the Earl of Romfrey, and be the last Earl of Romfrey, was a melancholy thought, however brilliant. So sinks the sun: but he could not desire the end of a great day.
Nevil flung his hand out straight to the house. Mr. Romfrey seemed to consent; the colonel shook his head: Nevil insisted. A footman carrying a tea-tray to Miss Halkett received some commission and swiftly disappeared, making Rosamund wonder whether sugar, milk or cream had been omitted. She met him on the first landing, and heard that Mr. Romfrey requested her to step out on the lawn.
I had to persuade our constituents that you, Commander Beauchamp of the Royal Navy, and the great family of the Earls of Romfrey, one of the heroes of the war, and the recipient of a Royal Humane Society's medal for saving life in Bevisham waters, were something more than the Radical doctor's political son; and, sir, it was to this end, aim, and object, that I wrote the article I am not ashamed to avow as mine, and I do so, sir, because of the solitary merit it has of serving your political interests as the liberal candidate for Bevisham by counteracting the unpopularity of Dr.
A congregation of shipyard workmen and a multitude of children crowded near the door. In passing through them, Lord Romfrey was besought for the doctor's report of Commander Beauchamp, variously named Beesham, Bosham, Bitcham, Bewsham. The earl heard his own name pronounced as he particularly disliked to hear it Rumfree. Two or three men scowled at him.
He told Mr. Romfrey that he should be glad to meet Colonel Halkett and Cecilia. Business called him to Holdesbury. Thence he betook himself to Dr. Shrapnel's cottage to say farewell to Jenny Denham previous to her departure for Switzerland with her friend Clara Sherwin.
'You do not object to such an alliance? 'I 'm past objection. There's no law against a man's marrying his nurse. 'But she is not even in love with him! 'I dare say not. He wants a wife: she accepts a husband. The two women who were in love with him he wouldn't have. Lady Romfrey sighed deeply: 'He has lost Cecilia! She might still have been his: but he has taken to that girl.
'It saves her from fretting, said the colonel. 'But she is fretting! If Lord Romfrey would confide in her and trust to her courage, papa, it would be best. Colonel Halkett thought that Lord Romfrey was the judge. Cecilia wished to leave a place where this visible torture of a human soul was proceeding, and to no purpose.
Nevertheless the end was gained. He sank into a chair silent. Mr. Romfrey wished to have it out with his nephew, of whose comic appearance as a man full of thunder, and occasionally rattling, yet all the while trying to be decorous and politic, he was getting tired. He foresaw that a tussle between them in private would possibly be too hot for his temper, admirably under control though it was.
Culling for the Countess of Romfrey. What was more, my lord's coachman caught it up, and he called her countess, and he had a quarrel about it with the footman Kendall; and the day after a dreadful affair between them in the mews, home drives madam, and Kendall is to go up to her, and down the poor man comes, and not a word to be got out of him, but as if he had seen a ghost.
Romfrey, until finally stung by Nevil, had indulged in his best-humoured banter. Shortly before the ringing of the dinner-bell Rosamund knocked at Beauchamp's dressing-room door, the bearer of a telegram from Bevisham. He read it in one swift run of the eyes, and said: 'Come in, ma'am, I have something for you. Madame de Rouaillout sends you this.
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